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Both Säpo and the Swedish Armed Forces participated in Huawei’s security assessment and concluded in late October that the Chinese company represents a security risk. The assessment served as the basis for PST’s decision, which means that the four players bidding in the 5G auction cannot use the products of the Chinese company Huawei.
Huawei appealed and on Monday afternoon came the message from the Stockholm Administrative Court: parts of the decision to ban Huawei products do not apply. At least not while the additional administrative court review is ongoing
“The administrative court has emerged that Huawei has the right to appeal PTS’s decision. The decision on inhibition means that the conditions related to, among other things, the use of Huawei products do not apply until further notice during the more detailed examination of the case by the administrative court, ”says chief lawyer Johan Lundmark in a statement. press.
The Administrative Court now, after the inhibition in the case has been announced, will take a position on what the Chinese company has stated in substance. Before the court can finally decide the case, the PST must comment on the merits of the matter.
– We have not taken a final position on whether this condition should apply or not. That’s what it is all about. This is a temporary decision, you might say, while we work on the goal as usual, Johan Lundmark tells TT
– The goal came in on Friday and Huawei has requested that we make such an inhibit decision so that this condition does not apply during our testing and we have now made that decision.
The 5G expansion auction It is scheduled to start on Tuesday. PST has not yet decided whether it will be postponed.
– We are analyzing the message of the administrative court, says the press contact of the PST, Petter Öhrn, on Monday evening.
According to chief lawyer Johan Lundmark, the Administrative Court review does not cover the question of whether the PTS auction should be held. It is up to the authority to decide.
Since before It has four companies that have obtained the yes of PTS to participate in the auction of space in two frequency bands for 5G. These are Hi3G Access (three), Net4Mobility (Tele2 and Telenor), Telia Sweden and Teracom.
Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have prevented Huawei from participating in the expansion of the new 5G network.
